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AF-Kabul: DCI — support to the Directorate-General for Health Service Provision of MoPH

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General Information
Country:   Afghanistan
City/Locality:   KABUL
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:165302-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 10, 2009
Deadline:   Nov 25, 2009
Buyer:   DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO MOLDOVA
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
KABUL
Afghanistan

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 0708 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 115/2009, #165302-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined


Update: Nov 10, 2009


Notice Type: 0708 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: External aid and European Development Fund
EU Official Journal Publication: 216/2009, #310310-2009
Referenced Document Number: 165302-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: Not defined

Original Text

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Location — Kabul, Afghanistan
Service procurement notice
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/128162/C/SER/AF.
2. Procedure: Restricted.
3. Programme: DCI/ASIE.
4. Financing: Financing agreement DCI/ASIE/2008/19898.
5. Contracting authority: European Community, represented by the European
Commission, on behalf of, and for the account of, the beneficiary country.
Contract specification
6. Nature of contract: Fee-based.
7. Contract description: The project has the scope of assisting the
Health Service Provision (HSP) DG in the roll out of its activities as
well as planning in a sustainable way for progressive decentralisation of
authority and for the continuous stewardship role of MoPH at the
provincial level.
The HSP DG is the pivotal directorate of MoPH, supposed to channel the
needs (i.e. from the provincial level) and to be able to assist the
provinces in their peripheral role of stewards of the public health
system. Under the responsibility of the General Director lie a number of
preventive as well as curative units which, in principle, are all
reflected at the provincial level.
The PPHOs (Provincial Public Health Offices) as well as the DHO (District
Health Officers) need to be supported in supervision, coordination and
planning of the implementation. Competencies should range from preventive
services to curative services and to population services. Technical
skills, managerial skills as well as administrative skills may vary across
the provinces and thus the quality of the outputs between different PPHOs.
The provincial strategic planning exercise will start soon. Although it
will take time before its complete roll out, it is essential at this point
in time that the exercise involves appropriately all the interested
parties and starts on solid ground.
Given the complexity of the MoPH and of Health Service Provision DG and
the complexity of the relationship with the field it is essential that
support is given, permanently or ad hoc, to a critical number of areas of
the DG itself, in Kabul and to the PPHOs.
8. Number and titles of lots: 1 lot.
9. Maximum budget: 1 600 000 EUR.
10. Scope for additional services: The contracting authority may, at its
own discretion, extend the project in duration and/or scope subject to the
availability of funding, up to a maximum not exceeding the length and
value of the initial contract. Any extension of the contract would be
subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor.
Conditions of participation
11. Eligibility: Participation is open to all legal persons participating
either individually or in a grouping (consortium) of candidates which are
established in a Member State of the European Union or in a country or
territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the specific
instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is
financed (see also item 30 below). Participation is also open to
international organisations. The participation of natural persons is
governed by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under
which the contract is financed.
12. Candidature: All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 11
above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply.
A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a
grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender
procedure. All members of a consortium (i.e. the leader and all other
members) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority.
The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person (as per item
11) will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular,
if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium
will be excluded.
13. Number of applications: No more than 1 application can be submitted
by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an
individual legal entity or as leader or member of a consortium submitting
an application). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more
than 1 application, all applications in which that person has participated
will be excluded.
14. Shortlist alliances prohibited: Any tenders received from tenderers
comprising firms other than those mentioned in the shortlisted application
forms will be excluded from this restricted tender procedure. Shortlisted
candidates may not form alliances or subcontract to each other for the
contract in question.
15. Grounds for exclusion: As part of the application form, candidates
must submit a signed declaration, included in the standard application
form, to the effect that they are not in any of the exclusion situations
listed in Section 2.3.3 of the 'Practical Guide to contract procedures for
EC external actions'.
16. Subcontracting: Subcontracting is allowed up to 20 % of the budget.
17. Number of candidates to be shortlisted: On the basis of the
applications received, 4–8 candidates will be invited to submit detailed
tenders for this contract. If the number of eligible candidates meeting
the selection criteria is less than the minimum of 4, the contracting
authority may invite the candidates who satisfy the criteria to submit a
tender.
Provisional timetable
18. Provisional date of invitation to tender: July 2009.
19. Provisional commencement date of the contract: October 2009.
20. Initial period of implementation of tasks and possible extension of
the contract: The initial period of implementation is 24 months. The
extension may extend up to the double the original implementation period.
Selection and award criteria
21. Selection criteria: Selection criteria apply to both legal and
natural persons.
The following selection criteria will be applied to candidates. In the
case of applications submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria
will be applied to the consortium as a whole:
1) Economic and financial capacity of candidate (based on item 3 of the
application form). If the applicant is a public body, equivalent
information should be provided:
— the average annual turnover of the candidate must exceed 700 000 EUR,
and
— the averages of cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and end of
year are positive.
2) Professional capacity of candidate (based on items 4 and 5 of the
application form):
— either 20 % of staff, or 20 staff currently work for the applicant in
fields related to this contract.
3) Technical capacity of candidate (based on items 5 and 6 of the
application form):
— the candidate has worked/is working successfully on at least 5 projects
entailing long-term assistance in fields related to this contract in the
past 5 years.
An economic operator may, where appropriate and for a particular contract,
rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature
of the links which it has with them. It must in that case prove to the
contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources
necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an
undertaking on the part of those entities to place those resources at its
disposal. Such entities, for instance the parent company of the economic
operator, must respect the same rules of eligibility and notably that of
nationality, as the economic operator.
If more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, the
relative strengths and weaknesses of the applications of these candidates
must be re-examined to identify the 8 best applications for the tender
procedure. The only factors which will be taken into consideration during
this re-examination are:
1) regional experience;
2) experience in reconstruction/post-conflict countries.
22. Award criteria: Best value for money.
Application
23. Deadline for receipt of applications: 21.7.2009 (13:00), Kabul time.
Any application received after this deadline will not be considered.
24. Application format and details to be provided: Applications must be
submitted using the standard application form (available from the
following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/
implementation/services/index_en.htm), whose format and instructions must
be strictly observed.
Any additional documentation (brochure, letter, etc.) sent with an
application will not be taken into consideration.
25. How applications may be submitted: Applications must be submitted in
English exclusively to the contracting authority:
— hand-delivered (including courier services) directly to the contracting
authority in return for a signed and dated receipt to:
Delegation of the European Commission to Afghanistan, Charahi Sedarat,
Shar-e-Naw (opposite Ministry of Interior), attention: Contracts and
Finance Section, Mr Ishaque Ali Naeimi Ishaque Ali, Kabul, AFGHANISTAN.
Mobile phone: +93 779566446.
The contract title and the publication reference (see item 1 above) must
be clearly marked on the envelope containing the application and must be
mentioned in all subsequent correspondence with the contracting authority.
Applications submitted by any other means will not be considered.
26. Alteration or withdrawal of applications: Candidates may alter or
withdraw their applications by written notification prior to the deadline
for submission of applications. No application may be altered after this
deadline.
Any such notification of alteration or withdrawal shall be prepared and
submitted in accordance with item 25. The outer envelope (and the relevant
inner envelope if used) must be marked 'Alteration' or 'Withdrawal' as
appropriate.
27. Operational language: All written communications for this tender
procedure and contract must be in English.
28. Additional information: Not applicable.
29. Date of publication of contract forecast: 25.2.2009.
30. Legal basis: Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 18.12.2006 establishing a financing instrument for
development cooperation.


Cancellation of a service tender procedure
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 18.6.2009,
2009/S 115-165302)
1. Publication reference: EuropeAid/128162/C/SER/AF.
2. Date of publication: 18.6.2009.
3. Programme: DCI/ASIE.
4. Contracting authority: The European Community, represented by the
European Commission, for and on behalf of the government of the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan, Kabul, AFGHANISTAN.
5. Other information: No technically-compliant tender has been received
for this service tender procedure.
Notes:
Should a new tender procedure be launched for this project, a new
procurement notice will be published.
Natural or legal persons interested should not therefore send proposals or
requests for information at this stage.
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